Dr. Annie Anton has been working on open source Electronic Health Records (EHR) and on HIPAA compliance within the context of EHRs.

Dr Laurie Williams' classes have developed an open source role based healthcare application for the last two years -- iTrust

Dr. Laurie Williams established a collaboration with Holt Anderson, theexecutive director of NCHICA. From the website NCHICA is "*The North Carolina Healthcare Information and Communications Alliance, Inc. (NCHICA)* is a nationally recognized nonprofit consortium that serves as an open, effective and neutral forum for health information technology (HIT) initiatives that improve health and care in North Carolina.

WorldVistA WorldVistA was formed to extend and collaboratively improve the VistA electronic health record and health information system for use outside of its original setting. The system was originally developed by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) for use in its veterans hospitals, outpatient clinics, and nursing homes. WorldVistA has a number of development efforts aimed at adding new software modules such as pediatrics, obstetrics, and other functions not used in the veterans' healthcare setting.

TriSano® is an open source, highly configurable, comprehensive surveillance and outbreak management application for global public health and healthcare. It allows local, state, federal and international agencies to identify, investigate, and mitigate communicable and chronic diseases, environmental hazards, and bioterrorism events.

EpiHandy - Open source tool for data collection and management developed by Centre for International Health, University of Bergen, Norway in collaboration with Makerere University, Uganda and others. Strong focus on data security and versioning. Uses handheld computers for data collection. New releases will focus on usability in Clinical Trials. Other products that use EpiHandy forms engine include WHO Anthro 2005, MobileHRS (Mobile Household Registration System) for demographic surveillance and a promising mobile client to OpenMRS developed by University of Makerere Uganda.

District Health Information System (DHIS) The District Health Information System (DHIS) provides for data entry, report generation, and analysis. It is part of a larger initiative for health care data in developing countries, called the Health Information System Programme HISP.

PHIELD The PHIELD PROJECT (Public Health Integration & Exchange of Lab Data) is focused on a cost effective solution to delivering laboratory data of public health significance to the appropriate legal jurisdictions.

Water and Sewer Licensing The goal of CUPHD Water project is to build an open source e-infrastructure for water licensing and inspections for health maintenance workers at the Champaign Public Health District (of Illinois), and other public health districts.

NetEpi The NetEpi project is developing open-source, network-enabled tools for epidemiology and public health practice.

eBed eBed is a web-based application suite designed to assist hospitals manage the daily census of patients and to maintain information about each room. eBed has been modeled to manage patient flow and occupancy status of beds of any type and location.

Public Health and Hospital management Building a software which helps to manage public health by collecting data elements, indicator from every units and sending aggregated data to upper units. The system aims to improve capacity of decision maker by providing exact and full data in time.

Simple QUArantine Tracking System SQUATS - the Simple QUArantine Tracking System - is a web based isolation/quarantine tracking and monitoring system for use by hospitals and public health. This project is currently under rapid development in response to the recent SARS outbreak.

EpiSPIDER EpiSPIDER is a public health healthcare application that integrates of information from different distributed electronic resources and performs semantic processing of text visually represent information using graphic display, GIS and mapping technologies